Up North

Somewhat back to normal routines after a week in beautiful Istanbul. As people reading Planet GNOME have seen from others, it was a great Guadec this year.

I found the schedule to be a bit uninspiring but that left more time for discussions and hacking. Among the sessions I went to I really enjoyed going to Alp’s session about Webkit and Blizzards on Mozilla. Some really interesting things coming from these projects.

Kris did a great job wrapping up the current state in GTK+ during his now traditional ‘GTK+ State of the Union’ talk and happy to see that the discussion around future GTK+ is getting started throughout the community. I spent a lot of time this year talking and listening to peoples feedback on the proposed plans. Realized that some things have been a bit left out from the discussions after the hackfest and that we need to do a better job at communicating what we plan to work on besides the cleanups and enabling of future development.

Finally a warm welcome to Stormy as executive director of the GNOME Foundation Board.

Posting this just before going to bed for an early rise to fly to Guadec in Istanbul. Unless someone gets sick last minute the entire Imendio crew will be arriving tomorrow and staying at the Golden Horn Sultanahmet.

See you all there!

Heading out to Guadec tomorrow, really looking forward to it this year but saying good bye to Emma and Carina felt hard after a nice week of vacation together.All of the Imendio crew will be there and Martyn has set us up with three flats at the Comfort Zone. There seems to be several interesting talks this year and I hope there will be a lot of discussions around the future of GTK+.Of the Imendians Carlos will be doing a lightning talk about Giggle, Kris will be giving a talk about the current state of GTK+. Finally Sven will be showing off some best practices when developing with GTK+/GNOME. Be sure to go listen to them, they are bound to be interesting.Send me an email or locate me on sight if you want to meet up for a coffee or a beer.See you all there!